Finally saw CONTAGION this weekend...

[carabele]

...and thought it a real snoozer. There was no excitement at all in the movie and you never felt anything for the cardboard characters. (As my brother said, you didn't even recall their names, just referenced them by the actors' names. That's certainly not a good thing.) The movie wasn't terrible; it just wasn't really good either. It was one of those movies where you leave the theatre shrugging your shoulders with an unimpressed "Eh" on your lips.

Since this was a collaboration of Scott Z. Burns (writer) and Steven Soderbergh (director), who are also the two men collaborating in the same roles for the proposed MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. movie, let's say I'm a bit wary about that project again. It could well turn out to be one of Soderbergh's didactic type pieces with no verve or spirit, if CONTAGION is any fare by which to judge.

Certainly CONTAGION, which is the only big budget blockbuster the two have collaborated on that I know of (their other movie collaborations were all much smaller films), doesn't offer a lot of assurance about either man's ability to really do such well. I'm just not convinced that blockbuster action/adventure movies are really Soderbergh's forte.

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[akane42me.livejournal.com]

Oh, no! My husband and I are planning to see it as soon as we get a free weekend evening. I'm sure we still will see it. I'm actually glad to hear what you had to say about it, so I don't have my expectations set too high.